Getting in the Way on the Net

摘要

One reality exposed by the Justice Department's recent complaint against Microsoft is that the software maker and PC manufacturers disagree over which controls the startup screen on your PC. Indeed, Gateway and Packard Bell are planning to modify that opening screen. Contrary to what you may think, this has nothing to do with branding, with a desire to get their name, rather than Microsoft's, in your face. Instead, it has everything to do with who controls a key point on the Internet distribution channel.